pollet juxtaposes the living world to the mute world (as he calls it), human being to nature (with one deistic approach to it) trying to problematize and explore our role in it, perception and process of creation. usual subjects of ponge´s poems-essays - stones. grass, candles, soap - he tries to observe in their essence (because "the table" only names it, doesn´t show any essence of the table). ponge tried to avoid